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and form an interesting decoration of the
room where the song was written, half
century ago. The third floor
contains The library-the pleasantest
room in the house--the chemical and phys
ical laboratories and the botanical room.
The furnishings are in harmony with
the quiet dignity of the institution, and
there are many gifts from friends of the
annex The main hall is decorated with
several fine casts from Michael Angelo
and from the antique. One, of a friese
in the Parthenon, is the gift of Hon.
Martin Brimmer. The drawing room
contains busts of Hermcs and of the Ve-
nus de Milo, and large copy of Titian's
"Bella Donna" hangs over the mantle. A
fine carbon photograph OF Guido's "Au-
rora" hangsi in one of the recitation rooms.
In the library there is an interesting series
of portraits Of distinguished authors,
bearing their autograph signatures, pre-
sented by Colonel I w Higginson. A small
landscape in one Of the halls the gift of
Miss Sarah Freeman Clarke-was painted
by that English woman artist who is said
to have been the original of George
Eliots Dorothea Casaubon. The library
has perhaps 2 1000 well-selected volumes,
and is steadily growing into valuable
collection Two cases contain the Bessie
Hincks memoriai-300 volumes Of mod
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SEEKING THE LEVEL.
The Woman of Duty and Not the Mere
Beauty is the Most Beloved.

The Woman of Duty and Not the Mere
Beauty is the Most Beloved.
Once in while 1t is refreshing to come
upon woman who is doing the best she can,
rrurotlr-vTefuunO., 's-ss4i2
In these ranks we shall meet with scores
of the sex mot too good for human natures
daily food" women who believe in poetic
fire in the kitchen if it happens to alight
there, and the divine afflatus stirring the air
over the sewing-machine and dust-pan, If
perchance it finds its way to them. 1t is not
every woman that can wear a pen over her
ear, nor every one who can cut fit and prop
erly put together that genteel instrument Of
torture, mans fine shirt. And instead of
there being any danger that the so-called
commonplace woman will become too COM
mon, there is a far greater apprehension that
she may underrate her value in the world,
and, sooner or later, be found scaling the
heights of Olympus with no time TO
attend to the family down below. As fact
remarkable women are being discovered
every day, but while they are multiplying
by scores, families are breaking up their
houses and going to hotels children are
being taken abroad to be educated, and
fashionable furnishing houses are supplying
the clothing which the most cultured wo-
men formerly took pride in making, or
causing to be made at home. Indeed, gen
orally relaxed phase of home life has been
growing upon Americans for some time
until as for practical needle-work who
knows Of any modern Phyllis giving Cory
don birthday handkerchiefs- "hemmed by
p. with loving thoughts of CT" Oh, mol
Phyllis may tell Corydon Of exquisite silk
and cambric squares she has seen at leading
shops in their own home city, but Corydon
would no more think of looking for needle
prick on the finger of Phyllis delicatey
manicured left hand than he would ask her
what kind of neckties Paul and Barnabas
wore.
Happily the law of action and reaction is
as inevitable as the tides, and having had
surfeit of complicated living ON one hand
and relaxation on the other, reasonable
order is certain TO set in again before many
years slip by. Again, a hotel will be an ad
Interim convenience again, children will be
reared and trained at home; and, again, the
most admirable households will be those in
which accomplished women manage affairs
with the executive ability that is as neces-
sary there as elsewhere. For until lovers
and husbands are so constructed that the
atmosphere around them is sufficient for
their existence, some great soul incar-
mated in woman's form" must take care of
every individual among them; and admit
ting this it is her privilege to inquire before
IL is too late
VIII the love that you're SO rich In,
Make fire In the kitchen,
Or the little god of love turn the spit, spit,
spit2
FANNY NJ. HOWELL
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THE FEAR of DRAUGHrs.
Foul, Hot Air the Greatest Menace e
Good HeaIth

Foul, Hot Air the Greatest Menace to
Good Health.
Foul dust in rooms cannot be got rid of
by any amount of sweeping and carpet beat
ing. The only thing that will remove and
replace it is current of comparatively pure
air from the outside. Except in very cold
weather, there should always be two open
windows in each room, on opposite sides.
'"If we should fellow that advice" the har,
rified reader will exclaim, tive should all
catch fatal cold. Don't I remember
dozen colds got by being exposed to sud-
den draught? Only a few nights ago, when
j occupied a seat near the door of theatre,
the door was left open during the inter
mission, and the draught, though pleasant
enough, gave me bad cold. No, thank
you. No draughts for me!' This logic
seems good, yet it is utter sophistry. As
metaphysician would say, the draught was
only the occasion, not the cause, of
the cold. The real cause was the foul, hot
air in the theatre, which demoralized your
skin and relaxed its blood vessels. so that
they were unable to react suddenly and en-
dnre the healthful, cool air from the street.
In other words, it was not the draught that
gave you a cold, but the sudden transition
from hot to cold air. Such transition al
ways is injurious to the skin, whether it be
from hot to cold or from cold to hot air. But
if you are not overheated current of cold
air is never injurious. As one of the great
est authorities on hygiene, Professor RECLAIM,
remarks: "Draughts are not injurious un-
less we are in glow. To healthy persons
they cannot possibly do SO much harm as
the stagnant air in close room. The fear
Of draughts is entirely groundless, though it
affects most people in manner which is
simply ludicrous." 1t is high time to acquit
dranghts of the charge of being the cause of
our colds and to convict the true culprit,
the injurious hot-house atmosphere in our
rooms. Why do people on river excursions
or on ocean steamers, where they are ex-
posed to terrible draughts. never "catch
cold2" Simply because their skins are not
previously broiled in hot-houses.- The Epoch.
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Arab traders there that IL they did not
let his native allies alone II would be the
worse for them. They lost no time in
swearing eternal friendship to their
powerful rival.
Stanley says that at his first meeting
with Tippu Tib he regarded him as the
most remarkable man he had met in
Africa. It was Tippu Tib and 200 Of his
men who helped Stanley start down the
unknown Congo from Nyangwe, where
both Livingstone and Cameron were de-
feated in their purpose to descend the
mysterious river. Twenty of the dusky
beauties of the great traders harem went
with him on this journey, his first trip
down the river which lie was soon after
to bring completely under his control for
distance Of $50 miles. Great changes
have been wrought by Tippu lib along
these wooded river banks between
Nyangwe and Stanley Falls. Fierce
tribes, to avoid whom Stanley made long
detours, have been chased into the dense
forests, and on the sites of their once
populous villages have arisen the store
houses of Tippu Tib and his brother
traders in the midst Of great plantations
of bananas and rice.
Tippu Tib is the scourge Of any tribe
that tries to thwart him. He turns his
1000 armed slaves loose upon his enc
mics, and they have never yet failed to
come home richly laden with booty and
slaves. The natives below Stanley Falls,
however, who tried to give him hot re-
ception few years ago, got OIL very
luckily. Tippu Tib did not kill them.
He simply disarmed them for distance
of 100 miles on both banks OF the river.
'The natives wrote DIR. Lenz, ARE in
capable of any resistance Tippu Tlo
has taken away everything they can fight
with. and lance or arrow is rarely seen
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in all the white enterprises In Central
Africa.
Only tifty-six years of age, Tippu Tib
has reached his commanding position by
sheer force of intellect, energy and
strength of character. The Arab traders,
who fear and obey him, desplse him in
their hearts as a man of low birth, for
Tippu Tib is of negroloid blood, which
means that he comes of an admixture of
the East coast tribes and has also little
Arab blood In his veins Twenty-six
years ago he set out for Central Africa
with very modest capital to begin life
as an ivory trader. He has done what
great railroad magnates In America do
when they bring road after road under
their management until they control
great channels of trade. As his capital
grew he sent his agents far and wide to
all the elephant-h hunting tribes, estab-
lished his stations along the great LAKES,
otne upper vUngU, nIaue cunuucrs wrrn
many chiefs to sell him all their ivory,
bullied others into acceding to his de-
mands, and so 1t came about in time that
he practically monopolized nearly all the
sources of ivory production in Central
Africa.
Cameron first introduced Tippu Tib
to the civilized world. II was thirteen
years ago that Cameron described him
as the greatest dandy he had met among
the traders of Africa. At Tippu Tbs
home in Kasongo, Cameron says that
large gangs of slaves walking about in
chains met his eyes at every turn; for
Tippu Tib dealt also in human merchan-
disc and many a simple African village
has been aroused from its peaceful pur7
suits by the cruel shouts of Tippu Tbs
ruthless soldier slaves, who left the scene
a smoking ruin and dragged away into
captivity those they did not kill. Cam
eron first saw Tippu Tib when he visited
Nyangwe in hign dudgeon, and told the
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,st his heart was broached. 1t was,
however, so cordially received that
further consultations followed, and in
few weeks committee was formed
to bring the matter INTO definite form.
The first letter to President Eliot, of IIar-
yard, was written December 49, 1878.
He received the plan without objection,
andit was determined TO go forward ener-
getically. The first committee comprised
Mrs Arthur Gilman, Mrs Louis Agas-
siz, Miss Alice Longfellow, Mrs. j. b.
Greenough, Mrs. E. w. Gurney, Mrs. J.
p. Cooke, and Miss Lillian Horsford.
Mr.. Arthur Gilman was made the secre-
tary of the committee, and has re-
manned the secretary and executive
officer of the institution ever since,
The first examinations were held Sep
tember "a, 1879, and the initial year of
he annex opened simultaneously with
the Harvard college year. Twenty-four
courses of study, identical with the col-
lege courses, were given during the first
year by eight Harvard professors, seven
assistant professors, and eight instruct=
ors. Twenty nine students were en-
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unique. For next year the number of
courses announced is seventy-eight,
to be under the care of forty
eight Harvard professors, assistant
professors and instructors Last year
year twenty-nine students took courses
in Greek, "a in Latin, SO in Eng
lish, 30 in German, 90 in French, 10 in
philosophy, 6 in political economy, 23 in
history, II in mathematics, in physics,
in advanced botany, 2 in advanced
zoology. The quality of the work done
by the young women is pronounced by
the instructors to be fully equal in all
respects to that accomplished by Harvard
young men in the same courses. No
difference is observed in the intellectual
ability of the two sexes, and if there is a
difference in the power of application, it
is held to be in favor of the young
women.
For six years the annex occupied hum
BILE rented quarters on the Appian Way
"a particularly insignificant street to
bear so brave name. Last year the Fay
house was bought for $4,000, as a per-
manent home for the annex. 1t is close
by the famous elm where General Wash
ington took command of the American
army in 1915, 1t is fifty rods west of
Harvard College, and like distance from
the Longfellow mansion. 1t is a digni-
fed, picturesque old house, built in the
stands in the midst of spacious and
well shaded grounds. 1t is admi-
rably adapted to the purposes of the
annex. The first floor has broad hall,
with quaint staircase, a stately draw
ing-room, recitation-room, and re-
fectory where the students may get cup
of tea or coffee and find opportunity to
eat their own midday lunch, besides am
pie dressing-rooms. On the second
floor are three recitation-rooms, con-
yersation-room, and the Office of the sec
retary. In one of the rooms on this floor
was written Fair Harvard" the song
which is so popular at every Harvard
commencement. II was written by Rev.
Samuel Gilman, ID. d., for the 200th an
niversary Of the college in 1896 A copy
of the song, and portrait of its author,
were, in January, 1886, presented to the
annex bv Mrs Caroline Howard Gilman.
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CONNECTIONS OF BLOSSOMS.


violets, Rose Leaves and Orange Flowers
Preserved to be Eaten.
Connections of violet blossoms, rose leaves
and orange flowers are among the other
achievements of the creole housekeeper-
filter food, one would think, for fairy elves
and tricky sprites than for dull mortals.
The flowers having been freed gently from
dust are put into wide-mouthed jars, with
alternate layers of cut-loaf sugar, and
tightly sealed. After three days the moisture
in the flowers, combining Nith the sugar,
makes syrup, and the jar is put, un-
covered, into vessel Of water and allowed
to boil gently until thoroughly heated
The color and favor of the blossoms are
thus retained. 1t must be admitted, how
ever, that a refined palate is necessary to
appreciate the delicate flavor of these culinary
conceits.
Our women should learn to prepare dainty
confections at home, instead of paying such
enormous prices for imported manufactures
There is no reason why we should pay the
Turk for his preserved rose leaves and the
Frenchman for his crystallized violets when
roses and vlOlets grow N profusion all
around us. Crystallized vlolets are by no
means so difficult to manufacture as the
large price asked for them would indicate
The following directions for preparing them
are simple and practical: Take large. fresh
blue vlOletS-tne uOuDle ones are the pest I,
boil them short time in water; take them
out with large skinner and drain them
carefully. To pound and half of bios
SONS allow two and half pounds of sugar.
Make a syrup of this with a small teacup of
water. Boil 1t and skim it well. Put in the
violets and boil ten minutes more, watching
closely lest the blossoms should become dis
colored. Take them from this syrup and
drain them in sieve. To one pound Of loaf
sugar put half teacup of water; set it over
a moderate fire and boil. Skim it, and when
it has boiled put in the violets; stir continu-
ally until the sugar granulates, then take
them up and dry in a warm oven. Rose
leaves can also he crystallized by this
method.-Harpey's Bazar.
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THE GRADUATE.
He Thinks He Knew it All Because He
Knew SO Little.

He Thinks He Knew it All Because He
Knew SO Little.
If there is supremely happy mortal on
the face of the earth it is the young man
who about this time (as the almanaes phrase
the diploma of bachelor of arts in his hand.
He knows everything. Whatever he does
not hold in his noddle is not worth knowing.
There may have been other men before him
who knew a little something about the arts
and sciences, to say nothing of the dead
languages, but he is prepared to head a new
departure into the world of letters which is
to blazon his name highest of all on the roll
of fame.
There are gray-haired men of my acquaint-
ance, who graduated at college thirty or forty
years ago, who laughingly remark that they
never expect to know as much as they
thought they knew on the day they gradti-
ated from college, Their pleasant little self
conceit lasted only until they were brought
squarely into contact with the practical,
working world about them, and then it
began to diminish and presently took more
reasonable proportions. This month thou
sands of young men are taking final leave of
their Alma Mater" preparatory to engaging
in the battle of life-as the class valedictor-
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rolled the first year. The number
was doubled, lacking one, in the
second year, but dropped to forty in the
third. There were thirty-nine students
the fourth year, forty mine the fifth, fifty
five the sixth, and seventy-two the
seventh. This year the number has in
creased to ninety, and the prospect is
good for exceeding hundred next year.
OF last years students, So came from
Massachusetts, from New York, 9 from
Maine, 2 from Ohio, and / each from
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsyl-
yania, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota.
Kansas and California.
The vital idea of the Harvard Annex
is to secure for its students the advan-
tages of instruction in regular college
courses by the Harvard faculty, which is
the most numerous, and probably the
ablest, body of instructors gathered in
one locality anywhere in the United
States. The opportunities thus offered
by the annex are, and will remain,
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ern English classics, presented by Gen
! eral E. w. Hincks, in memory of his
daughter, who was one of the best-loved
members of the class of 1897, and was
burned to death in July, 1885.
! The Harvard Annex is, as far as l know,
the only educational institution in this
| country where there are no rules for per-
| sonal conduct, and need for any. The
department of discipline is in the hands
of the secretary, but in the seven
years thus far passed there has been no
| offense against morality or decorum that
has called for attention from Mr.. Gilman.
The young ladies come to Cambridge for
an education. They are aided in secur-
ing pleasant boarding places by the ladies
of the executive committee, and occa-
sional social calls are made upon them.
But there is no intention of directing
their movements or in any way interfer-
ing with their liberty. The young ladies
have thus far without single excep-
tlon, proved themselves worthy of being
thus trusted
For social purposes the students have
an Idler Club, which meets every fort
night; for mental improvement debat-
ing society, which settles important
questions in politics, philosophy and
OtiiiSS. livery w cQHtSud1 nTS. ASdSSlL,
who stands at the head of the executive
committee, gives social afternoon tea
to the young ladies in the drawing-room,
which is heartily enjoyed, and to which
an occasional favored friend is admitted.
The Idler Club has also lately given an
"at home" to the friends of the institu-
tion in Cambridge, Boston, and else
where.
The expense of securing the advan-
tages of the annex is moderate, though
there is no special effort to adjust it to
people of very limited means. The price
for years tuition is $780, Board and
incidentals will scarcely cost less than
$4O0 more for the year. The certificate
given to graduates in the regular course
is as nearly equivalent to the degree of
bachelor of arts given by Harvard Col
lege as an unofficial degree can be.
Whether Harvard will ever so adapt the
annex as to grant its graduates genuine
degrees, it is idle to prophecy; but there
is no doubt that such a step would be
hailed with great satisfaction by the
friends of the annex.
Mr.. Arthur Gilman, who with his wife
is responsible for the creation of the
Harvard Annex and who has been its
head and manager from the beginning, is
born educator as well as literary man
of high attainments. He is native of
Illinois, coming of an old New England
family whose progenitors came to Bos-
ton in 1888, two years after the birth of
Harvard College. Born in 1887, he was
educated in New York and began his ac-
tive career as banker in that city. His
nealth failing, he removed to West
ern Massachusetts, where he spent
fifnn in for rfnivan MT, In
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In the great expedition which Stanley
is now leading into Central Africa is a
coal-black man of medium height and
of dignifed and courtly bearing, who is
one of the most remarkable men in
Africa. He is the greatest ivory trader
in the world. He is also the richest man
between Zanzibar and the Atlantic ocean,
and his word is absolute law over a
greater extent of territory than is con-
trolled by any, save four or five of the
most powerful native sovereigns. This
man is Tippu Tib, of whom much has
been written in the books and reports of
Cameron, Stanley, Van Gele, Lenz and
others. Nowadays there is scarcely a
newspaper allusion to the Congo State
or the Stanley expedition that does not
mention Tippu Tib, and, for good or i'll,
he is destined to figure very prominently
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a melancholy SUICIDE AS II q suicide
were ever Jolly or amusing-or he paints
i'm agor izing words the work of the "fire
fiend'p and otherwise lends wings to
rhetoric where only facts are wanted, and
his heart is half broken when brilliant bits
Of description are consigned to the literary
torch or he is sternly forbidden to renew the
attempt to lend aesthetic culture to barba-
rian world. And what happens in one cali
ing happens in all-the young bear finds
that his troubles are all before him.
A distinguished clergyman told me that
he preached his first sermon for the Rev. DR..
Taylor, who thirty years ago was rector OF
old st. Thomas Church, at Broadway and
Prince street. After the service was over he
was curious to know what sort Of an i'm
preston he had made. He waited for Dr.
TAYLOR to speak, but the old gentleman was
silent. At last the youthful debutant could
stand it no longer and blurted out "Df;
TAYLOR, what did you think of my sermonf"
The doctor turned to him and said with
solemn emphasis: 'Young man, do you
ever expe to preach again2 p Certainly,
why not ~ ''Well, ! didn't know-l was
afraid this was going TO be your last sermon,
because YOU seemed to crowd everything you
knew into it," The young teacher and
preacher was so utterly disgusted that he
really feltinclincd never 70 preach again; but
the medicine proved wholesome, II severe
Neio York Mercury.
Bangor slate qllarries are shipping
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M,,,,ng p,e,nias Ran,d,v

Jubilee rejoicings' is an expression, after
all, Of doubtful import know Of at least
one public official whose delightful duties
run in the direction of organizing jubilee
festiyiry, and who tells me that while his
life is daily, nightly and even hourly bur
den to him, he is positively confident that
by the end Of the month he will have made
more active and implacable enemies than
fail to the lot of most men in lifetime.-
Tn,do, H,orId
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KeeIy to the Front Again.

Inventor John w. Keely, who has been
giving exhibitions of what he calls his sym
in Philadelphia. has been SO bothered by the
questions of puzzled spectators that he has
prepared a printed statement, in which he
says that he is now graduating his engine,
and is ut work on the fifth octave. His sys-
tem he says, is founded on sympathetic vi
bration, in which there is neither pressure
ated, the engines run and the canron fired
through a mine. When the present process
of adjustment shall be completed, and when
he shall be protected by patents, Keely says
hat he will give an explanation Of his power,
knowledge of which can be more easily ac-
quired than that necessary for the operation
Of a steam engine
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The Real Proof OF the pudding.

"The proof of the pudding" said Sioux
Falls man who was arguing on some scien-
tific point, ''you know, is in the eating"
'Well, dunno,n replied his friend, whose
wife learned the mysteries of the kitchen at
a cooking-school, 81 dunno bout that al
ways. I think it's waiting and seeing
whether it makes you sick or not. ''-Ddkota
M